77 White Street | condominium

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6-story Neo-Grec residential building completed in 1888 as a store-and-loft building. Designed by Auguste Namur, it is clad in red brick. The primary facade, on White Street, has two bays of segmental-arched window openings per floor. Windows of the 2nd and 3rd floors are grouped together vertically; 2nd-story windows have stone lintels. Sill courses further enhance the design. A corbelled brick cornice caps the facade. The first floor retains its original black cast-iron storefront framing members which exhibit unusual detailing, including exposed rivets and bolt heads.

The overall design and articulation of detail of the front facade returns for one bay on the Cortlandt Alley elevation. Beyond this bay there are nine bays of simple window openings with stone lintels and sills. Several openings have been blocked or have had sash removed. A corbelled brick cornice caps the elevation which has a concrete block base below the first-story window sills.

This building typically has been used by dry goods firms for office and storage space. From 1978-82, it housed the Mudd Club, one of the leading punk/new wave clubs. The building was converted to condominiums in the 1990s.